Whats with the USB Trend?

[Geotpf]

Methinks the Extigy is for laptops or little mini-ATX computers without an additional PCI slot, or for people who are afraid of opening up their computers. It's not a performance item; not meant to be. The only thing that I would use it for would be to provide Sound Blaster Live!-quality sound to a laptop, and for that, it fills in a (very small) niche that had no products previously. Don't buy it for a normal computer-duh.

[EndobioticChaos]

I'll have to agree with gomer on the gamepad issue... I currently use USB gamepads, but one of those also has the capability to run on gameport... and that one's got 4 axis, 10 programmable buttons, and a hat switch. I also know for a fact you can daisy-chain up to 4 of the standard MS Sidewinder gamepad, and those have "6 action buttons, an 8-way cross-key pad, and 2 trigger buttons ". That's quite a bit of information going through that gameport...

But all that aside, I still like USB better.

And yeah, that Gravis Xterminator is really a sweet pad... I'm gonna hafta get one before too long.

[Nighthawk]

I think it's nicer than serial ports which require an IRQ each, but I agree that not everything was made to be a USB device. Come on, running a monitor over USB?

[andyfy4]

Does that info relate to using a wirless usb device for a printer?

[andyfy4]

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Originally Posted by SEALTEAMTHREE

I think a line needs to be drawn on USB devices. Mice, keyboards, game controllers, scanners and printers are fine, but when you get into something that either has a better standard, such as speakers or a monitor, or something that will eat up CPU cycles, such as the creative Extigidy, its time to call it quits. I recall a thread about the device (Extigy sucks!!!!!!) where the poor guy that bought it took a 50% hit in CPU usage when playing an MP3! Thats nuts!

Would it be Commercial Communism asking for a USB that has a one fit for all rule, ever misplaced ur digi cam cable to find all others have different connections?